Nothing to Hide

Important!! This requires extra software from: https://github.com/compsocial/nothing-to-hide Nothing to Hide is a Chrome extension…
What is Nothing to Hide?
Nothing to Hide is a Chrome extension for Gmail that replaces specific words and phrases in your email messages with vaguer alternatives. It aims to hide your text from snoopers while still being understandable to the intended recipient.

Extension stats

Users: 24
Version: 3.0.1 (Last updated: 2014-03-04)
Creation date: 2014-03-04
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • https://mail.google.com/*
  • http://127.0.0.1:5000/
Size: 143.36K

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Extension summary

Important!! This requires extra software from: https://github.com/compsocial/nothing-to-hide

Nothing to Hide is a Chrome extension for Gmail that makes your email messages vaguer. After you compose a message, this extension replaces any overly specific words and phrases with appropriate, but much vaguer alternatives. The intended recipient can (hopefully) still understand the transformed message but snoopers (hopefully) cannot. Part experiment, part art project, Nothing to Hide wants to let you communicate with people you already know while simultaneously hiding your text in the background noise of the internet. We see our primary adversary as widespread passive internet surveillance and user modeling. In other words, Nothing to Hide seeks to making mining and modeling difficult because some data were never written down.

This project is its very early stages of development. On rare occasions, it might tele-transport your computer to the event horizon. Also, due to its reliance on natural language processing toolkits, this version only supports the English language, sorry :(

Extension safety

Risk impact

Nothing to Hide requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Nothing to Hide has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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